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E Ink produced three commercial videos - "The Laws of More" - about the companies E Ink technology, ecosystem, energy saving, and applications:

Our friend Sriram Peruvembra (E Ink's marketing VP) gives an update on E Ink's displays and products at IFA 2011. It's a long video (19 minutes) but it's a great introduction into the current state of E Ink technology and markets:

Here's a nice short video showing a 6" E Ink Pearl panel running on the Freescale i.MX50 EVK, showing the quick refresh rate possible with such a setup:

Taiwan's ITRI developed a new technology called i2R e-paper. It's a 're-writable' paper. The idea is that the image on the paper does not change - until you pass it through a special thermal printer which can then change the image - but only about 260 times or so. The i2R uses heat-activated liquid crystals and can achieve up to 300dpi (monochrome).

Fujitsu is showing a new color e-paper eReader prototype - with a 4096 colors, 8" display (157 PPI that offers 8:1 contrast ratio. This is a linux-based system with a new fast processor (refresh rate of 0.7 seconds) and ePub and PDF support. It weights only 220 grams.

This new prototype probably uses Fujitsu's "improved" e-paper technology announced back in May 2010.

E Ink are showing a new credit card with a small E Ink display. It is used to display a generated secure transaction code with the press of a button. The battery lasts for 3 years. Apparently they're already producing and shipping these in Korea:

It's been a while since we heard some news regarding AUO's Sipix e-paper technology. IRX Innovation tested the new panel and found it's fast enough for video (6fps):

In fact IRX engineers say that this could be improved to 10fps just by loading the images into a memory buffer. The panel on show offers VGA resolution (480x640), 100Hz refresh rate and 4 gray levels (although this will be improved to 16 levels). Here's a closeup of the panel:

Here's a nice video showing a game of Angry Birds on a rooted Nook Touch e-reader. Unfortunately, the device is too slow for this game which flashes a lot and does't handle the actual game animation at all:

The Nook Touch (Wi-Fi version) costs $139.

Polymer Vision is showing a new flexible/bendable E Ink prototype. The display offer 800x600 resolution:

The company says that you can bend this display over 25,000 times (6mm radius). We do not know if they're any closer to commercializing this. The company went bankrupt in 2009 and was later bought and now they seem back into flexible displays, and apparently still working towards a an e-reader...

Here's a nice video with our friend Sri Peruvemba from E ink, discussing their e-paper panels and color E Ink (Triton) displays: